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I've had serious problems with McAfee and would recommend uninstalling it
completely, including deleting any straggling files and Registry
entries. I've had excellent results with Norton on many machines and
recommend it highly, however others will differ on this.
If your Norton CD is only one year old, you should be able to update for
free it via their Internet "Live Update" service if you have Norton Web
Services installed --
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At 10:51 AM 10/04/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>I have recently purchased a new computer. It has Win98 on it, which has a
>scan disk, a disk cleanup (which appears to just delete certain directories
>like the temp files), and defrag. McAfee virus shield also came with it.
>It does not have a "window doctor" like Norton had. (Near the end of the
>life of my previous computer I had added Norton Systemworks 95/98.)
>
>My question is this. In your experience w/ computers, would you add Norton
>for the extra "doctor"? Or is it better to stay with the integrated
>utilities. Second, if I install Norton am I better off buying a newer
>version, than putting on a ~1year old version and upgrading (which might be
>free)?
>
>It's not the top of the line computer, so it may not pilot the Space Shuttle
>or run TS2000 (I have TS4 eod), but it sure is a relief to have 128M memory
>instead of 16M. (I just wish I had replaced it prior to the old HD crashing
>:( )
>
>TIA for answers to the slightly off topic Q.
>
>Conrad Bowers
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